Posts Tagged ‘Casper Bangs’
More New, Free Music: Beach House, Outputmessage, and More
The new Beach House album, Teen Dream, out on Jan. 26.
Local electro-retro-futurist Outputmessage dropped a four-song single yesterday, the third and final one leading to his upcoming album. You can pay what you want for it over at his bandcamp page, or stream it:
Teen Dream, the upcoming Sub Pop debut of the dreamy Baltimore duo Beach House, has leaked, and Gorilla vs. Bear has an mp3 of one of its songs, “Norway.” It’s less minimal, and a bit poppier, than the group’s usual fare, but just as gauzy and hypnotic. Not just one blog has described this as “gorgeous.” Right on.
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Sampling the thought streams of D.C. musicians past and present.
-A man has our elevator filled to the brim w/plants. Its like a 2 acre jungle crammed into a cubicle. he’s complaining the door won’t shut.
-i think i just discovered the malkovich floor of my building? what exactly is going on the 3rd floor? :-)
-Mother fucker, I’m trying to watch the lost boys!!
Wale:
-dear ucb..i will go to breakfast w/ yall but i am NOT goin to eat a Dinosaur sized pancake at “The Griddle”
-everybody askin what kinda shoes im wearin…haa
-09 airmaxes http://pic.gd/38d0d6
-is listening to some old songs he wrote and thinking that they are not that good.
-The Whitespace 7″ should in stores soon, but it’s available now here: http://www.dischord.com/release/ws01/whitspace
-My bookbag smells like it’s been eatin chicken behind my back…literally
-Somebody somewhere has candy paint…on their house though.
-I think I’m just gonna say “Jordan!” after I have sex or something from now on.
CMJ Notebook: Casper Bangs, Shots of District Acts, Kiwi Rock
Tabi Bonney performs at Fat Baby last night in New York City.
The thing about CMJ is, not all of it’s CMJ. There are the unoffocial day parties—free, sometimes invite-only events sponsored by record labels, PR firms, and media. There are the more exclusive parties at night. And there are the shows that, although not nominally part of the five-day conference and music festival, go on anyway, right in the middle of it all.
Take Casper Bangs‘ show last night at Pianos, which was sponsored by the weekly concert series Cross-Polination and was not part of the official CMJ roster. Nevertheless, the band—the project of Rob Pierangeli, who used to play in the Hard Tomorrows—played to a nearly full room.
Pierangeli paid $45 when he applied to play at this year’s CMJ, but his band was turned down. “Sorry to be frank, but I don’t see if the music has that much to do with who gets in,” he told me today. “So if you want to play, you have to know someone. Everyone knows that though. That’s not new information.”
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
-Sitting at a cafe, eating a sandwich & overhearing a very awkward first date at the table to my left. Guy working too hard, girl turned off.
-Mary Timony gives guitar lessons. That seems like something I invented in my head, but it’s true. Is there also a Vespa made of 2Amys pizza?
-File under: cool stuff that escaped my notice. Madlib’s apparently on some kind of Sun Ra trip. http://bit.ly/aMrSF & http://bit.ly/Oui50
-Things U.S. Royalty never do: USR never only uses the mens restroom.
-Things U.S. Royalty never does: USR never checks out of their hotel room on time.
-Just got some delicious white vinyl for the Casper Bangs 7″. It’s gorgeous. http://yfrog.com/0wgo8gj
-Loading gear out at 5 am is true rock stardom.
-If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.
-I forgot to mention that last quote was from Proverbs. I didn’t come up with it. Just sharing with you guys
-is honored to have the chance to collab with the laughing man and see the blk jks! see us all on the 29th
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
-is listening to his new slim harpo record.
-Check out these two new songs: http://www.casperbangs.com/ You can hear them live at the two upcoming shows in DC and BKLYN.
-Chillin with Bauhaus. We’re so post punk.
-Playing The Rumble at Three Clubs in LA tomorrow. http://www.threeclubs.com http://bit.ly/UpV6Q
-just tracked arab percussion and violin with scott robinson and winston yu, respectively. yea, this record will be fucking hot, yos.
-Some confusion about whether I can be killed by a stake through the heart…(no).
-Some confusion about whether I can be killed by silver bullets…(no).
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Sampling the thought-streams of DC musicians past and present.
Beauty Pill (Chad Clark):
–“Ill Communication” reissue is out. Has anyone ever really stuck their dick in mashed potatoes? Scared to do a YouTube search.
–On second thought, I think inserting genitals into mashed vegetables is more of a Vimeo thing. Next level. No commercial gain. Integrity.
Casper Bangs:
–Just had to pay $580 to prevent NYC from towing the van we borrowed from army of me and then the starter died.
–punks in a white van just rolled up in front of lauriol plaza and said to an old white man, can u tell us how to get to the hood
Craig Wedren (Shudder to Think):
–Guyoncologist=cancer doctor of the man-vaj
–Homealone hexes Cptn Eo after unsolicited reacharound causing everything post-Bad to be actually kind of bad.
Edie Sedgwick:
--Vince Vaughn making me smell his fingers to prove he got lucky last night.
–POV porn too realistic to be fun, but Don Herbert is looking pretty sexy on these old Nickelodeon Mr. Wizard VHS tapes…
–Had to shave my moustache after employer pointed out she has identical moustache. Bastards always finding a new way to keep you down.
Weekend Music Round-Up
Friday
- The Dance Party, Ra Ra Rasputin, Tigercity, Casper Bangs. 9:30 club. $15. All ages.
- Deja Blue, Clarence “Bluesman” Turner. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
- Handsome Furs, Dri, The Cinnamon Band. Black Cat. $12. All ages.
- Lynne Fiddmont. Blues Alley. $25.
- Atheist, The Faceless, Psyopus, The Agonist, Gnostic, Condemn the Infected, A Bloodbath in Boston. Jaxx. $20/$23.
- Alex Brown Quartet (Fri. & Sat. show). Twins Jazz. $15.
- Sunsets with a Soundtrack: The U.S. Army Concert Band. West Steps U.S. Capitol. Free.
- Video Games Live! Filene Center at Wolf Trap. $20–$48.
- Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
- Chopteeth, DJ Thick. Rock and Roll Hotel. $15. All ages.
- Chance Gardner, Molehill, Gist. The Red & The Black. $8. +21.
Fort Reno Posts Full Summer Schedule
Fort Reno’s website is finally back online with a spiffy redesign and, more importantly, a full summer concert schedule. Local faves like Imperial China, Benjy Ferree, Casper Bangs, and Title Tracks all have dates booked.
Shows will be taking place every Monday and Thursday and will being at 7:15 pm. Also, if you have some spare change, feel free to make a donation.
Full schedule after the jump:
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First Shows: Casper Bangs/Foul Swoops
Casper Bangs: It’s not that The Hard Tomorrows never blew me away, it’s just that I was so impressed with the band’s Jamiroquai-set at Run For Cover a few years back that when I heard the songs that they actually wrote, it was difficult to adjust my expectations. I kept waiting for front man Rob Pierangeli to put the floppy hat back on and break into “Use the Force.” Alas, it never happened.
Casper Bangs, Pierangeli’s solo project, which features some of the other Hard Tomorrows members, made its debut at Black Cat last week. No floppy hats here, either, but it was pretty good. Guitar driven pop with lots of reverb, comparable to some of the later Echo & the Bunnymen records or, maybe, early Oasis, although that seems like it might be a cruel thing to say. Surprisingly pro-sounding, too, especially for a first show. Apologies for the blurry photo.
Foul Swoops: Young people! I had thought that if you were 20-years old and in a band these days, that band either had to play Phish covers or hardcore. Not so with Foul Swoops, the trio has the good taste to plunder its aesthetic from the skronkiest depths of the Flying Nun catalog. If Casper Bangs is a band that benefits from experienced musicians, Foul Swoops is the opposite. Its music demands thrashing and careless naiveté, which the trio seems to have. Plus, their set last night at Velvet Lounge was only 17-minutes long, including a sweet cover of Half Japanese’s “Face Rake.” Can’t beat that. Hopefully, good things to come.
